Spoon.



F. W. RICE.

SPOON.

APPLICATION FILED 001:. 16, 1912.

1 95,469, v Patented May 5, 1914.

FREDERICK W. RICE, OFSAYRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

SPOON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Application filed October 16, 1912. Serial No. 725,995.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Frnonmon W. RICE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sayre, in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spoons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in spoons, and more particularly to medicine spoons, the object of the invention being to provide a two compartment spoon adapted to contain in separate compartments different liquids or medicines which are adapted to be mixed in one compartment before being discharged.

A further object is to provide a spoon of this character which is designed for measuring in one compartment a given quantity of medicine, and in the other compartment a quantity of water which is to dilute the medicine and into which the medicine is poured from the first-mentioned compartment when the spoon is tilted.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view in side elevation illustrating my improvements and showing in dotted lines an ordinary form of spoon handle. Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section through the spoon shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan View of the spoon shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view in longitudinal section illustrating a modification, and Fig. 6 is a plan view of the modified form of spoon shown in Fig. 5.

1 represents my improved spoon or rather the bowl of the spoon, as it is to be understood that the spoon may have any approved form of handle, the handle 2 being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. It is to be understood, therefore that when I use the term 1 spoon, this term is intended to mean more particularly the bowl of the spoon which is of a particular shape to be hereinafter clescribed. The spoon 1 is shaped to form a relatively small medicine pocket 3 at one end which is the end to which the handle is connected, and at the other end of the spoon, the same is shaped to form a relatively large water pocket 4, the bottom of the latter beingpreferably flat as shown at 5 to allow the. spoon to sit in an upright position and receive the medicine and liquid in the respective pockets. The bottom of the spoon, between the two pockets, curves up wardly as shown at 6 forming a partition between the pockets and this partition is grooved in its upper face as shown at 7 forming a.longitudinalpassage bet-ween the pockets, so that the contents of pocket 3 may be readily poured into pocket 1 without overflowing the sides of the spoon. While the exact shape of the sides of the spoon,

may of course be varied, a preferable form is to curve the sides 7 of the pocket 4 so as to extend them slightly above the edge of pocket 8, which will tend to prevent any overflow of the contents of the spoon when .the spoon is tilted.

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, a hood 8 is positioned over the discharge end of pocket 4, and this hood is especially advantageous when using the slightly, the medicine from pocket 3 will run into the water in pocket 4, so that the exact proportion of medicine and water is had in the spoon, and then the contents of the spoon is poured into the patients month by tilting the spoon in the ordinary manner discharging the contents from pocket 4. It will thus be seen that the spoon facilitates the mixing of medicine or diluting of the same, and permits this to be done at the time the medicine is taken, and does away with the necessity of mixing quantities of such diluted medicine which is not desirable because it frequently happens that the patient receives a stronger percentage of the medicine at one time than at another because the liquid is not properly shaken or mixed at each administering. With my improved spoon the medicine will be administered in the proper proportions at every for while metal and other similar materials may be used. that I also intend to construct the spoon of paper or other cheap destructible material which can be destroyed after using, so that the device will be entirely sanitary.

Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described Without departing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a spoon bowl composed of non-metallic material and having an upwardly projecting portion intermediate the ends thereof dividing the bowl into a relatively large and a relatively small compartment, the sides of said relatively large compartment 6X tended in a plane higher than the plane of the sides of the relatively small oom.pa-rt ment, and said raised portion on its upper surface having a groove therein longitudinally of the bowl, substantially as described.

As a new article of manufacture, a spoon bowl having an upwardly projecting portion intermediate the ends thereof dividing the bowl into a relatively large and a relatively small compartment, the sides of said relatively large compartment extended 1 FREDERICK XV. RICE.

\Vitnesses F. lV. VoeLnn, H. F. RICE.

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